比特币采矿：用于数字经济的绿色解决方案

长期以来，那些未能掌握更广泛效用的人，比特币采矿一直被批评为“浪费”。尽管许多人急于赞美股份证明（POS）系统，但工作证明（POW）采矿却为环境效益带来了至关重要且经常被忽视的环境利益。

Bitcoin mining has long been criticized as “wasteful” by those who fail to grasp its broader utility. While many rush to praise proof-of-stake (PoS) systems, proof-of-work (PoW) mining offers a crucial and often overlooked environmental benefit. Properly deployed, Bitcoin mining doesn’t just consume energy—it captures and monetizes energy that would otherwise be wasted.

长期以来，那些未能掌握更广泛效用的人，比特币采矿一直被批评为“浪费”。尽管许多人急于赞美股份证明（POS）系统，但工作证明（POW）采矿却为环境效益带来了至关重要且经常被忽视的环境利益。比特币采矿适当地部署，不仅消耗能量，还可以捕获并货币化否则会浪费的能量。

Flaring from oil fields, methane from landfills and agricultural operations, and stranded gas in remote locations have been unavoidable inefficiencies of the energy industry for generations. Bitcoin mining has transformed these emissions into pure opportunities to create and benefit from productive economic value while reducing their environmental impact. Before the advent of a PoW monetary network, there was no scalable way to repurpose this energy.

几代人不可避免地从油田，垃圾填埋场和农业运营中的甲烷以及在偏远地区滞留的天然气燃烧的天然气不可避免地是无法避免的。比特币采矿将这些排放转变为纯粹的机会，从而从生产性经济价值中受益，同时减少环境影响。在POW货币网络出现之前，没有可扩展的方法来重新利用这种能量。

Now, Bitcoin mining provides a financial incentive to harness it.

现在，比特币采矿提供了利用它的经济激励。

Methane: From waste to energy

甲烷：从废物到能量

Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, with more than 80 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Yet, traditional energy infrastructure struggles to monetize small, dispersed methane sources, making mitigation financially and logistically unfeasible. Bitcoin mining changes this dynamic by allowing modular operations to be deployed directly at methane-emitting sites—landfills, farms, and oil drilling operations—where it can be burned cleanly to generate electricity for mining rather than vented or flared into the atmosphere.

甲烷是最有效的温室气体之一，在20年内，二氧化碳的变暖潜力是80倍以上。然而，传统的能源基础设施努力通过少量分散的甲烷来源获利，从而在经济上和后勤上不可行。比特币挖掘通过允许模块化操作直接在甲烷发射地点（陆菲尔，农场和油钻探操作）中部署来改变这种动态，在这种情况下，它可以干净地燃烧以发电以进行采矿，而不是发泄或膨胀进入大气。

This is not theoretical. Companies like Crusoe Energy and Nodal Power have already demonstrated how Bitcoin mining can turn methane waste into a revenue stream while reducing emissions.

这不是理论上的。 Crusoe Energy和Nodal Power等公司已经证明了比特币采矿如何将甲烷废物变成收入流，同时减少排放。

According to research published in Science Direct, “This integration not only proposes a method to enhance landfill sustainability but also introduces a potential economic boost for landfill operations currently venting or flaring methane, offering them an alternative revenue source through the global bitcoin market. Such an approach is particularly pertinent in regions where legal mandates require gas flaring, suggesting that Bitcoin mining could improve the financial feasibility, potentially accelerating the development of landfill gas capture infrastructure and reducing the tax burden on local residents and businesses.”

根据《科学直接》上发表的研究：“这种整合不仅提出了一种增强垃圾填埋场可持续性的方法，而且还引入了当前正在排气或燃烧甲烷的垃圾填埋场的潜在经济增强，从而通过全球比特币市场为它们提供了替代的收入来源。这种方法在法律要求需要天然气的地区特别相关，这表明比特币采矿可以提高财务可行性，可能加速垃圾填埋气捕获基础设施的发展并减轻当地居民和企业的税收负担。”

Disrupting centralized data centers: A net energy benefit

破坏集中数据中心：净能源福利

Beyond its direct energy applications, Bitcoin mining has the potential to improve digital infrastructure efficiency. Today, centralized payment networks and hyperscale data centers—run by companies like Visa (NASDAQ: V), Mastercard (NASDAQ: MA), and Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL)—consume enormous amounts of energy for transaction processing, data storage, and now things like artificial intelligence (AI) model training. These centralized hubs require not just energy-intensive computation but also cooling, redundancy, and security systems that increase their carbon footprint exponentially because they do not benefit from the inherent security of a distributed compute model.

除了直接的能源应用外，比特币采矿还具有提高数字基础设施效率的潜力。如今，集中的支付网络和高度数据中心 - 由Visa（NASDAQ：V），MasterCard（NASDAQ：MA）和Google（NASDAQ：GOOGL）等公司进行筹款 - 可用于交易，数据存储以及现在的大量能源诸如人工智能（AI）模型培训之类的东西。这些集中式枢纽不仅需要能源密集型计算，还需要冷却，冗余和安全系统，以呈指数级增加其碳足迹，因为它们不能从分布式计算模型的固有安全性中受益。

A scalable PoW blockchain could replace many of these inefficient legacy systems, offering a more energy-effective alternative that relies on globally distributed mining power rather than monolithic data centers. Additionally, the increasing demand for AI infrastructure, which treats graphics processing unit (GPU) computation as a commodity much like Bitcoin treats hash power, presents opportunities for synergy. The interplay between these technologies could optimize both systems, from hardware-level efficiency to Bitcoin micropayments securing high-integrity AI training data and allowing micropayment-based locks on various types of data both at the consumer level for the sake of commerce and deep in the libraries for the sake of security.

可扩展的POW区块链可以取代许多这些效率低下的旧系统，从而提供更依赖于全球分布的采矿能力而不是单片数据中心的更富效的替代方案。此外，对AI基础架构的需求不断增长，该基础架构将图形处理单元（GPU）计算视为一种商品，就像比特币对待哈希功率一样，为协同作用提供了机会。这些技术之间的相互作用可以优化这两种系统，从硬件级效率到比特币微付款，以确保高融合性AI培训数据并允许基于微付款的各种类型的数据锁在消费者层面上，以便为了商业而深入为了安全起见。

Bitcoin and Grid Stability: The energy buyer of last resort

比特币和电网稳定性：最后的能源购买者

Energy curtailment agreements allow power companies to expand capacity without overbuilding for peak demand. Traditionally, utilities must either produce excess power during off-peak hours, throttle renewable sources like wind and solar to avoid grid congestion or shed load into wasteful, expensive, and ecologically dirty “peaker plants” which act as energy dumps at the edges of the grid.

节能协议允许电力公司扩大产能，而无需为高峰需求建立过度建设。传统上，公用事业必须在非高峰时段产生过多的动力，油门可再生能源（如风能和太阳能），以避免网格充血，或者将负载变成浪费，昂贵且在生态上肮脏的“峰值植物”，它们在能量转储的边缘，在网格。

Bitcoin mining uniquely offers a solution to this problem by acting as an extremely elastic energy consumer when strategically placed at critical points in the grid infrastructure.

比特币采矿独特地通过策略性地放置在网格基础设施的关键点时，通过充当极其弹性的消费者来解决这个问题。

Unlike traditional data centers or industrial consumers that require a constant supply, Bitcoin miners can instantly scale operations up or down in response to grid conditions. This dynamic load balancing stabilizes power grids, allowing utilities to sell excess energy when demand is low while maintaining reliability during peak usage and pushing risk onto competing companies rather than small consumers or taxpayers.

与需要持续供应的传统数据中心或工业消费者不同，比特币矿工可以立即响应网格条件来向上或向下扩展操作。这种动态的负载平衡可以稳定电网，使公用事业在需求较低时出售过多的能源，同时在高峰使用期间保持可靠性，并将风险推向竞争的公司，而不是小型消费者或纳税人。

The Texas ERCOT grid, for example, has repeatedly demonstrated how Bitcoin mining can prevent power wastage and ensure efficient grid operations.

例如，德克萨斯州ERCOT网格反复证明了比特币采矿如何防止浪费并确保有效的网格操作。

In a critical report from Husch Blackwell in 2022, they expressed doubts on Bitcoin mining’s viability due to their experience in understanding the needs of traditional data centers as unreliable partners from grid shedding, but according to a recent report from the Digital Assets Research Institute (DARI,) the data shows that Bitcoin mining has become a critical part of Texas’ ability to scale up the electrical grid on pace with the needs of their population growth and saved Texas taxpayers close to $20 Billion vs. using traditional, and highly polluting peaker plants.

在2022年，赫斯克·布莱克威尔（Husch Blackwell）的一份重要报告中，他们对比特币矿业的生存能力表达了怀疑，因为他们在理解传统数据中心的需求方面是网格脱落的不可靠合作伙伴的经验，但是根据数字资产研究所的最新报告（Dari ，）数据表明，比特币采矿已成为德克萨斯州按照人口增长的需求扩大电网的能力的关键部分，并节省了得克萨斯州的纳税人将近200亿美元。

These Bitcoin-based, peak-shedding techniques are much lower risk,

这些基于比特币的峰值脱水技术的风险要低得多，